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Wil

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Script: Latin
Compound status: Unknown
In this record: Relationships: 2 · observations: 5

Candidate data 1.0.0. Unknown values have not been filled with guesses.

Language information

Dictionary information and other contexts are kept separate. A statistical territory does not establish the language of a name; a classification does not determine a person's gender.

Dictionary contexts

None provided for this spelling in this version.

Other contexts

Language	Gender in source	Basis	Evidence
English	Not specified	Usage evidence	Evidence Language: English. Source category: Not specified. Basis: Usage evidence. This is a source claim, not a statement about a particular person. Open source and technical details → Technical details and JSON Original claim { "basis": "usage_evidence", "context_id": "ctx:06dbd04d-e957-5bd7-a2ee-a08e537f724e", "country": null, "evidence_id": "ev:5e10a1d1-39de-5c65-acf0-89ae8cec981e", "form_id": "frm:4dcdc131-bbec-51fe-95b7-6c74014387b2", "gender": "unknown", "language": "en" } All claims and sources — go to this entry →
Not specified	Not specified	Source classification	Evidence Language: Not specified. Source category: Not specified. Basis: Source classification. This is a source claim, not a statement about a particular person. Open source and technical details → Technical details and JSON Original claim { "basis": "source_classification", "context_id": "ctx:719b0673-a338-568c-a4d4-0ce480b55638", "country": null, "evidence_id": "ev:4d758ab4-3386-5308-8f4f-a2822f32e0ec", "form_id": "frm:4dcdc131-bbec-51fe-95b7-6c74014387b2", "gender": "unisex", "language": null } All claims and sources — go to this entry →
Not specified	Male	Birth statistics	Evidence Language: Not specified. Source category: Male. Basis: Birth statistics. This is a source claim, not a statement about a particular person. Open source and technical details → Technical details and JSON Original claim { "basis": "official_birth_statistics", "context_id": "ctx:ff33e8af-5135-5e9a-84bc-b42d35594551", "country": "DE", "evidence_id": "ev:1f521527-22d3-505b-baee-1cfc8e44d11d", "form_id": "frm:4dcdc131-bbec-51fe-95b7-6c74014387b2", "gender": "male", "language": null } All claims and sources — go to this entry →

Related spellings

Every relationship has a direction and type. Source-reported equivalence does not imply universal interchangeability.

Relationships: 2

From	To	Type	Evidence
Wil	Wilken	Source-reported equivalence	Evidence The source reports a relationship of type «Source-reported equivalence». The direction is shown in the table row. Open source and technical details → Technical details and JSON Original claim { "evidence_id": "ev:8bcccd46-75ba-5607-b220-9e1457c6abcd", "from_form_id": "frm:4dcdc131-bbec-51fe-95b7-6c74014387b2", "language": null, "link_id": "lnk:e9a85a32-3b95-5623-97cd-99dec4612f6c", "position": null, "relation": "source_equivalence", "scheme": null, "to_form_id": "frm:99928738-b3de-583c-bbee-450485c72c50" } All claims and sources — go to this entry →
Wil	Wilem	Source-reported equivalence	Evidence The source reports a relationship of type «Source-reported equivalence». The direction is shown in the table row. Open source and technical details → Technical details and JSON Original claim { "evidence_id": "ev:61a95733-5275-5bf7-b2f1-5aea6fb9d3b6", "from_form_id": "frm:4dcdc131-bbec-51fe-95b7-6c74014387b2", "language": null, "link_id": "lnk:89c7ccc2-a399-5548-8a1e-542edf425656", "position": null, "relation": "source_equivalence", "scheme": null, "to_form_id": "frm:4bb80d16-080c-5068-9584-48b528f01092" } All claims and sources — go to this entry →

From

Type

Evidence

Wil

Wilken

Source-reported equivalence

Evidence

The source reports a relationship of type «Source-reported equivalence». The direction is shown in the table row.

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Technical details and JSON

Original claim

{
    "evidence_id": "ev:8bcccd46-75ba-5607-b220-9e1457c6abcd",
    "from_form_id": "frm:4dcdc131-bbec-51fe-95b7-6c74014387b2",
    "language": null,
    "link_id": "lnk:e9a85a32-3b95-5623-97cd-99dec4612f6c",
    "position": null,
    "relation": "source_equivalence",
    "scheme": null,
    "to_form_id": "frm:99928738-b3de-583c-bbee-450485c72c50"
}

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Wil

Wilem

Source-reported equivalence

Evidence

The source reports a relationship of type «Source-reported equivalence». The direction is shown in the table row.

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Technical details and JSON

Original claim

{
    "evidence_id": "ev:61a95733-5275-5bf7-b2f1-5aea6fb9d3b6",
    "from_form_id": "frm:4dcdc131-bbec-51fe-95b7-6c74014387b2",
    "language": null,
    "link_id": "lnk:89c7ccc2-a399-5548-8a1e-542edf425656",
    "position": null,
    "relation": "source_equivalence",
    "scheme": null,
    "to_form_id": "frm:4bb80d16-080c-5068-9584-48b528f01092"
}

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Usage in statistics

Series differ in coverage and counting units. Values cannot be added together to measure global popularity.

SeriesObservations shown: 5

Territory	Year	Category	Name position	Count
United States	2025	Male	Not available	5
England and Wales	2025	Male	Not available	4
Cologne	2022	Male	2	1
Cologne	2011	Male	Not available	2
Cologne	2017	Male	Not available	1

An unspecified position is not treated as first position. Full counting units, methods and qualifications are preserved in the original data.

Observation technical details

[
    {
        "country": "US",
        "global_name_gender_inferred": false,
        "method": "deterministic_sum_of_source_counts",
        "published_count": 5,
        "reported_sex": "male",
        "source_csv_rows": [
            2180900
        ],
        "source_ref": "US",
        "year": 2025
    },
    {
        "country": "GB",
        "geography": "England and Wales",
        "global_name_gender_inferred": false,
        "method": "source_reported",
        "population_scope_ref": "boys-2025.xlsx:Notes!A6:B6",
        "published_count": 4,
        "published_rank": 4275,
        "rank_quality": "source_rank_disagrees_with_published_counts",
        "reported_sex": "male",
        "source_csv_rows": [
            24359
        ],
        "source_ref": "GB",
        "year": 2025
    },
    {
        "country": "DE",
        "evidence_id": "ev:1f521527-22d3-505b-baee-1cfc8e44d11d",
        "geography": "Köln",
        "global_name_gender_inferred": false,
        "method": "source_reported",
        "name_position": 2,
        "published_count": 1,
        "published_rank": null,
        "reported_sex": "male",
        "scope_note": "source_description_position_conflict",
        "source_csv_rows": [
            26760
        ],
        "source_observation_id": "obs:955effe9-0aa9-5f71-9053-150e877b31ef",
        "source_ref": "DE_KOELN",
        "source_reported_sex": "m",
        "unit": "published_name_occurrences_at_position",
        "year": 2022
    },
    {
        "aggregation_allowed": false,
        "country": "DE",
        "evidence_id": "ev:6260378d-a9a8-5379-be83-b2ac2f92cdbf",
        "geography": "Köln",
        "global_name_gender_inferred": false,
        "method": "source_reported",
        "name_position": null,
        "published_count": 2,
        "published_rank": null,
        "reported_sex": "male",
        "resolved_text": "Wil",
        "scope_note": "position_absent_repeated_keys_not_aggregated",
        "source_csv_rows": [
            6765
        ],
        "source_observation_id": "obs:20a5c678-b750-57c9-8e1c-c052c56fb67c",
        "source_ref": "DE_KOELN_HISTORY",
        "source_reported_sex": "m",
        "source_text": "Wil",
        "text_method": "NFC",
        "unit": "published_name_count_position_unspecified",
        "year": 2011
    },
    {
        "aggregation_allowed": false,
        "country": "DE",
        "evidence_id": "ev:94a9fe87-5b54-5b54-b4af-2cceca7723be",
        "geography": "Köln",
        "global_name_gender_inferred": false,
        "method": "source_reported",
        "name_position": null,
        "published_count": 1,
        "published_rank": null,
        "reported_sex": "male",
        "resolved_text": "Wil",
        "scope_note": "position_absent_repeated_keys_not_aggregated",
        "source_csv_rows": [
            43372
        ],
        "source_observation_id": "obs:b53bb6d5-d59b-558c-856b-3a0aa57da8e7",
        "source_ref": "DE_KOELN_HISTORY",
        "source_reported_sex": "m",
        "source_text": "Wil",
        "text_method": "NFC",
        "unit": "published_name_count_position_unspecified",
        "year": 2017
    }
]

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A source behind every claim

Preserved evidence referenced by this record. Expand a description to view its source; original values are available in the technical details.

Usage context: English · Not specified · Usage evidence

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Usage context: Not specified · Not specified · Source classification

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Usage context: Not specified · Male · Birth statistics; Statistics: Cologne · 2022 · Male · count: 1 · name position: 2

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Provenance of the record «Wil»

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Relationship «Wil → Wilken»: Source-reported equivalence

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Relationship «Wil → Wilem»: Source-reported equivalence

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Statistics: Cologne · 2011 · Male · count: 2 · name position: not specified

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Statistics: Cologne · 2017 · Male · count: 1 · name position: not specified

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Field and compound-status provenance

{
    "field_evidence": [
        {
            "characters": " -‐‑–'’",
            "evidence_id": "ev:2a5f6bb1-6014-5323-9f1a-c727b08dee78",
            "field": "contains_name_separator",
            "form_id": "frm:4dcdc131-bbec-51fe-95b7-6c74014387b2",
            "method": "deterministic",
            "not_compound_classification": true,
            "rule": "character-presence-001",
            "value": false
        }
    ],
    "compound_claims": []
}

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